- From: Ray Denenberg <rden@loc.gov>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:12:06 -0500
- To: www-zig@w3.org
Mike Taylor wrote: > Some kinds of object (e.g. USMARC) specify a character set, and > others (GRS-1) do not. Those which do, we must respect. True, some do and some don't. Two questions we need to answer before we go much further (and I think we need help from the experts on these): (1) Is is clear exactly which do and which don't? (2) For those which "do", is it always the case that these will be transfered according to the native character encoding or is it likely that clients will want records in utf-8, even in the case where the format specifies a native encoding? And I think (1) is the more important question. We can address (2) later. In other words for any given format, is it always implicitly known to both parties (client and server) whether or not the format comes with a native encoding. If so then our problem is simplified. But if not, then I'm afraid Mike's philosophy "Those which do, we must respect" isn't going to work in practice. --Ray
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